Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 62.8 against 48.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 85 to 60. Ministral 3 14B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 14B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.
Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
62.8
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
43.8
Ministral 3 14B
33
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
66.9
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
77.2
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
57
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
84
Ministral 3 14B
80
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
79.7
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
78
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 64 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 85 and 60.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 50.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 63.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 48.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 66.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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